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title: Proverbs 16:26 (JPS 1917) — The hunger of the labouring man laboureth for him; for his mouth com… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hunger of the labouring man laboureth for him; for his mouth compelleth him. Who acts: man, hunger, mouth. Proverbs 16:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:26 · JPS 1917

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The hunger of the labouring man laboureth for him; for his mouth compelleth him.

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**Who acts:** man, hunger, mouth · **What happens:** labour, compel, hunger · **To what, where:** hunger

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This is Proverbs 16:26 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hunger, mouth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PRO:469
# text = The hunger of the labouring man laboureth for him; for his mouth compelleth him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	labouring	labour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	laboureth	labour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	compelleth	compel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **labour** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **labour** | present | the hunger of the man |  |  |  |  | for heart | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **compel** | present | hunger's mouth | hunger |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **hunger** |  | the man |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunger «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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נֶ֣פֶשׁ עָ֭מֵל עָ֣מְלָה לּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־אָכַ֖ף עָלָ֣יו פִּֽיהוּ׃

[Proverbs 16:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.26/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:469` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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